Curriculum Units

Workshop model

• • multiple genres, levels

  • study of elements and craft

Reading Units: Grade 5

• Interpretive  Book Clubs: Analyzing Theme

• Tackling Complexity: Moving Up Levels of Nonfiction

• Fantasy Book Clubs

Reading Units: Grade 6

• A Deep Study of Character

• Tapping the Power of Nonfiction

• Social Issues Book Clubs

Writing Units Grades 5 and 6

• Narrative Craft

• Research Reports

• Research Based Argument Essay and Literary Essay

• Varied instruction

  • Direct Instruction Lessons

  • Math Menu--Independent work

  • Basic skill practice

Grade 5 Units: 

U1 Finding Volume

U2 Fractions as Quotients and Fraction Multiplication

U3 Multiplying and Dividing Fractions

U4 Wrapping Up Multiplication and Division with Multi-Digit Numbers

U5 Place Value Patterns and Decimal Operations

U6 More Decimals and Fraction Operations

VTCAP Training

U7 Shapes on the Coordinate Plane

U8 Putting it All Together

Grade 6 Units: 

• Growth Mindset

• U1 Area and Surface Area

• U2 Introducing Ratios

• Add/Sub Fractions & Decimals Prior Understandings

• U3 Unit Rates & Percentages

• U4 Dividing Fractions

• U5 Arithmetic in Base 10

• U6 Expressions and Equations

• U7 Rational Numbers

• VTCAP Practice

• U8 Data Sets & Distributions

• U9 Putting It All Together

Grade 5: 

• Map reading skills

• Ancient Cultures

  • Mesopotamia

  • Egypt

  • India

  • China

  • Greece/Rome

Grade 6: 

• Geography of Western Hemisphere

• Ancient and Indigenous Peoples of Western Hemisphere

• Three Cultures Connect

Grade 5 Units:

• Earth’s Systems 

• Energy Flow

• Matter

• Earth’s Place in Space

Grade 6 Units: 

• Earth's Systems

• Solar System

• Motion and Stability Forces and Interactions

• Geology